The reason why Barkov is the captain of the Panthers and the Finnish team.
The reporter says that Pekka Rinne was sweating after the warm-up, while Mikke Granlund’s hair was still dry.
Reporter: Mikke is it normal that you don’t do anything during the warm-up?
Barkov: It would be nice to know.
Granlund: I don’t know why I didn’t break a sweat.
Granlund: Now that Sasha mentioned it, I guess I have to take a little sprint on the ice to work up a sweat. But this really shows the level of expectations here.
Reporter: We’ve heard before that Sasha is the kind of guy who keeps the standards high.
This was a charity game, and yet Sasha was still demanding. Some people have said that he shouldn’t be Panthers captain because he’s calm and quiet, and that Matthew Tkachuk, who is more vocal, should be the captain instead. But even just by calmly saying a couple of words, Sasha had Mikke sweating on the locker room bench.